[PATCH v1 00/35] drm: Analog TV Improvements

[Noralf Trønnes]

Den 25.08.2022 18.21, skrev Maxime Ripard:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 03:21:29PM +0200, Noralf Trønnes wrote:
>>
>>
>> Den 22.08.2022 09.48, skrev Maxime Ripard:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Sun, Aug 21, 2022 at 06:33:12PM +0200, Noralf Trønnes wrote:
>>>> Den 29.07.2022 18.34, skrev Maxime Ripard:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Here's a series aiming at improving the command line named modes support,
>>>>> and more importantly how we deal with all the analog TV variants.
>>>>>
>>>>> The named modes support were initially introduced to allow to specify the
>>>>> analog TV mode to be used.
>>>>>
>>>>> However, this was causing multiple issues:
>>>>>
>>>>>   * The mode name parsed on the command line was passed directly to the
>>>>>     driver, which had to figure out which mode it was suppose to match;
>>>>>
>>>>>   * Figuring that out wasn't really easy, since the video= argument or what
>>>>>     the userspace might not even have a name in the first place, but
>>>>>     instead could have passed a mode with the same timings;
>>>>>
>>>>>   * The fallback to matching on the timings was mostly working as long as
>>>>>     we were supporting one 525 lines (most likely NSTC) and one 625 lines
>>>>>     (PAL), but couldn't differentiate between two modes with the same
>>>>>     timings (NTSC vs PAL-M vs NSTC-J for example); 
>>>>>
>>>>>   * There was also some overlap with the tv mode property registered by 
>>>>>     drm_mode_create_tv_properties(), but named modes weren't interacting
>>>>>     with that property at all.
>>>>>
>>>>>   * Even though that property was generic, its possible values were
>>>>>     specific to each drivers, which made some generic support difficult.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thus, I chose to tackle in multiple steps:
>>>>>
>>>>>   * A new TV norm property was introduced, with generic values, each driver
>>>>>     reporting through a bitmask what standard it supports to the userspace;
>>>>>
>>>>>   * This option was added to the command line parsing code to be able to
>>>>>     specify it on the kernel command line, and new atomic_check and reset
>>>>>     helpers were created to integrate properly into atomic KMS;
>>>>>
>>>>>   * The named mode parsing code is now creating a proper display mode for
>>>>>     the given named mode, and the TV standard will thus be part of the
>>>>>     connector state;
>>>>>
>>>>>   * Two drivers were converted and tested for now (vc4 and sun4i), with
>>>>>     some backward compatibility code to translate the old TV mode to the
>>>>>     new TV mode;
>>>>>
>>>>> Unit tests were created along the way. Nouveau, ch7006 and gud are
>>>>> currently broken for now since I expect that work to be reworked fairly
>>>>> significantly. I'm also not entirely sure about how to migrate GUD to the
>>>>> new property.
>>>>>
>>>>> Let me know what you think,
>>>>> Maxime
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I don't know if it's related to this patchset or not, but I do get this:
>>>>
>>>> pi at pi4t:~ $ sudo dmesg -C && sudo modprobe -r vc4 && sudo modprobe vc4
>>>> && dmesg
>>>> [  430.066211] Console: switching to colour dummy device 80x30
>>>> [  431.294788] vc4-drm gpu: bound fe400000.hvs (ops vc4_hvs_ops [vc4])
>>>> [  431.295115] vc4-drm gpu: bound fec13000.vec (ops vc4_vec_ops [vc4])
>>>> [  431.295467] vc4-drm gpu: bound fe004000.txp (ops vc4_txp_ops [vc4])
>>>> [  431.295804] vc4-drm gpu: bound fec12000.pixelvalve (ops vc4_crtc_ops
>>>> [vc4])
>>>> [  431.298895] [drm] Initialized vc4 0.0.0 20140616 for gpu on minor 0
>>>> [  441.444250] vc4-drm gpu: [drm] *ERROR* [CRTC:68:crtc-1] flip_done
>>>> timed out
>>>> [  441.446529] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 90x30
>>>> [  451.684321] vc4-drm gpu: [drm] *ERROR* flip_done timed out
>>>> [  451.684347] vc4-drm gpu: [drm] *ERROR* [CRTC:68:crtc-1] commit wait
>>>> timed out
>>>> [  461.924255] vc4-drm gpu: [drm] *ERROR* flip_done timed out
>>>> [  461.924281] vc4-drm gpu: [drm] *ERROR* [CONNECTOR:45:Composite-1]
>>>> commit wait timed out
>>>> [  472.164006] vc4-drm gpu: [drm] *ERROR* flip_done timed out
>>>> [  472.164031] vc4-drm gpu: [drm] *ERROR* [PLANE:61:plane-1] commit wait
>>>> timed out
>>>> [  482.403877] vc4-drm gpu: [drm] *ERROR* flip_done timed out
>>>> [  482.403903] vc4-drm gpu: [drm] *ERROR* Timed out waiting for commit
>>>> [  492.643799] vc4-drm gpu: [drm] *ERROR* [CRTC:68:crtc-1] flip_done
>>>> timed out
>>>> [  492.647073] vc4-drm gpu: [drm] fb0: vc4drmfb frame buffer device
>>>
>>> Module unloading/reloading has been janky for a while.
>>>
>>> I've fixed it up recently but it doesn't surprise me that there's still
>>> some situation that won't work. Is it on a Pi3?
>>>
>>
>> It's a Pi4.
> 
> With which kernel? I just tested it on last next and it seems to work ok
> there. I've fixed it recently though, so it's only in drm-misc-next and
> linux-next at the moment.
> 

I'm on a week old drm-misc-next.

What's your setup so I can try that.

This is mine:
https://gist.github.com/notro/41c59d77c3022dc6d931d4f9547c4ea6

I can't see anything that should differ significantly from what you
could have done. Only maybe that I use the latest firmware and perhaps
you've got a 64-bit kernel.

Noralf.